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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

will continue to see growth in e-commerce. What’s more, the pandemic will continue to accelerate the trend toward online shopping. As a consequence, the “new normal” after the pandemic passes will exhibit a renewed baseline that will require substantial changes to the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • Web

Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

technologies are reshaping work and life in potentially emancipatory ways. Many of these redeployments and innovations are aimed at advancing equality. Which of these tools hold promise, and which are fundamentally incompatible with that... View Details
  • November 1996 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Vallourec's Venture into Metal Injection Molding

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Vallourec, a leading maker of seamless tubing, developed a radically new technology that used steel powders to create the tubes. To ensure a supply source, Vallourec ultimately had to acquire its supplier of metal powder, and then, to build the volume required to... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Business Model; Diversification; Innovation and Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • April 2020 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

Uber: Competing Globally

By: Alexander J. MacKay, Amram Migdal and John Masko
This case describes Uber’s global market entry strategy and responses by regulators and local competitors. It details Uber’s entry into New York City (New York), Bogotá (Colombia), Delhi (India), Shanghai (China), Accra (Ghana), and London (United Kingdom). In each... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Globalization; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai Shi; Shanghai; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
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  • Web

1.9 Course Registration - MBA

Projects 1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2.... View Details
  • Fall 2018
  • Article

What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain?: Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy

By: Teppo Felin and Karim R. Lakhani
Distributed ledger technologies — collectively known as blockchain — have burst onto the business scene, accompanied by a significant amount of hype.They are widely expected to disrupt existing industries and lead to the creation of new types of companies. Some of the... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Technology Adoption; Strategy; Business Processes; Innovation Strategy
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  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

  Working PapersNone Available This Week   Cases & Course MaterialsAssessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System Harvard Business School Note 808-026 Describes how to asses and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

accessibility reports, and tools to improve access to employees of all abilities. “Their whole business model is that they want accessibility to be a key metric and they will come in to assess spaces for... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

Takatsuka said. “With that, I wondered what was the best way for me to contribute to the transformation and innovation of the education system and thought that businesses may be one of the ways to make... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • Program

Public Education Leadership Project

namesake, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is a joint initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. Key Benefits In this... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • News

The 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Getting Started with Ambidexterity

By: Andrew Binns and Michael Tushman
This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and scaling—that share common features for success, such as the role of the senior team, and that also have distinct disciplines. Incubation is a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at Gillette, Samuel Adams, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
We study how trade policy affects firms' ownership structures. We embed an incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Policy; Vertical Integration; Business and Government Relations; Boundaries; Ownership; Mathematical Methods
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

wanted to take a minute to share some of the key lessons we've learned over the past year and a half. Lifelong learning is more important today than ever. The pandemic disrupted much more than learning. Businesses struggled (and still... View Details